97: Underrated Skills Everyone Should Learn To Be A Better Partner

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all been told the important stuff that helps a relationship work in the long-run:

Kindness
Respect
Clear and compassionate communication

But there are also other little skills that make a big difference.

Things that our partner may not even be able to vocalize, but that deep down in their subconscious they are eternally grateful for and that keep the relationship working and make us No.1 in their books.

Cultivate these skills and your name will be on its way to becoming an ill-judged impulsive tattoo on someone’s bicep in no time...

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to another episode of the Love Life podcast with me Matthew Hussey.
0:30.0	My brother Stephen Hussey. Hello, here we go. And I'm just excited because I got to introduce it
0:40.0	today. I normally it's Stephen who gets to do that. Just happy to be in the driving seat for the
0:45.0	first few seconds. Steve, what are we talking about today on the podcast? I want to talk about
0:51.5	underrated qualities in relationships. This is based on an article I wrote a while back, Matt.
1:00.6	There was very popular if I may say so on the site. And you know what I was thinking here is
1:07.2	we've all been told the important stuff that helps your relationship work in the long run.
1:11.2	You know everyone knows you need kindness and empathy. You need respect. You know you need to
1:15.6	give each other respect very important. You need clear communication. You need to be compassionate
1:22.0	with your partner's needs. But there's also like little little like what might call like minor skills
1:30.1	that are kind of important but people don't really I think people don't vocalize or realize they're
1:36.4	important. That's probably a one of these and maybe you've got some. But here's one. Here's one
1:43.4	I'm underbring to mind because we've talked about this before. The idea of being able to be on
1:50.7	your own at a party. Okay. Just just the act of you know obviously couples spend loads of time
2:01.6	together maybe even all their time. But like if you go out together and go somewhere there's always
2:10.1	you know when you first first start dating someone what I find is there's always this moment when
2:15.5	you're going to take them into a crowd of people and you're going to have you've you've done all
2:21.5	your time in your little bubble of love together and you decide hey we should probably go and like
2:27.7	you know actually interact with the rest of the world now. And you take into a party or some
2:33.5	event and there's such a wonderful moment if you see that they just hold their own in that event
2:42.4	and they go and socialize and they're kind of independent in a way that makes you kind of
2:51.2	being with pride watching them be like you know charming in the room. And you know obviously you
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